Sanitation appliance



C. H. HENDERSON.v

SANITATION APPLIANCE.

- Patented May 13-, 1920.

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UNITED STATES CHRISTIE H. HENDERSON, OF OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA.

SANITATION APPLIANCE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 18, 1920.

Application filed January 14, 1919. Serial No. 271,013.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHRISTIE H. HENDER- SON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Oakland, county of Alameda, and State of California, have invented a new and useful Sanitation Appliance, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to appliances for the use of tuberculosis patients, and an object of the invention is to provide means for facilitating the care of such patients.

Another object of the invention is to provide means which will aid in preventing the spread of infection from tubercular persons.

The invention possesses other features of advantage, some of which, with the foregoing will be set forth in the following description of the preferred form of my invention which is illustrated in the drawings accompanying and forming part of the specification. It is understood that I do not limit myself to the showing made by the said drawings and description, as I may adopt variations of the preferred form within the scope of my invention as set forth in the claim.

The figure of the drawing is a perspective view of the appliance, showing the method of attaching it to the head post of a bed.

In the care of tuberculosis patients, it is very necessary to exercise care in providing means for collecting the sputum and in preserving it until it can be destroyed. The napkins or handkerchiefs used by the patients must also be handled with great care if the risk of spreading the bacilli is to be avoided. It is customary to provide sputum cups for the patient which are laid down in any available place when not in use, and it is a frequent practice to pin a supply of paper napkins to the patients pillow or adjacent thereto for his convenience after using the sputum cup. Either of these practices, but especially the latter, fail to attain that standard of cleanliness which should so rigidly surround every patient affected with phthisis, and it is for meeting the requirements of the situation more fully that I have devised the invention which will now be described in detail.

A clamp bracket 2 adapted to be secured to h hea was the p t e ts bed is provided with a vertically disposed socket 3 in which the bifurcated arm 4 is adapted to be pivotally supported. The forks of the arm 4.- are adapted to engage loops 6 arranged at the upper corners of a wire basket 7 preferably of a size and shape to conveniently hold a paper bag 8. On the upper edge of the basket 7 two brackets 9 adapted to hold sputum cups are arranged. A paper sputum cup 11 secured in the wire holder 12 is shown in one of the brackets.

Below the brackets 9 a frame 13 is secured to the basket 7. The frame forms a compartment adapted to hold a supply. of paper napkins 14. The bottom of the compartment is slanted so as to effect a separation of the upper edges of the napkins to facilitate their extraction from the compartment. After a napkin has been used it is placed by the patient in the paper bag 8, which with its contents may be destroyed when desired.

By reason of the pivotal mounting of the supporting arm 4, the appliance may be swung into a convenient position so that the patient may use the cup, and then pushed back out of the way. Since the napkins are used but once and then placed in the bag by the patient, and since the appliance is manipulated entirely by the patient and the cups handled only by him and when not in use are in no danger of being upset it is obvious that the appliance is not only a great aid in maintaining the desired degree of sanitation, but is also a convenience to both patient and attendant.

A reversal of the basket on the supporting arm enables the appliance to be used on either side of the patientfthe basket 2 being attached on either the right or left head post of the bed as desired.

From the above it will be obvious without specific illustration and description that the appliance may be formed ofthin metal instead of wire frame work. In either case the entire appliance is readily sterilized at desired intervals.

I claim:

A device of the character described comprising a clamp adapted to be secured to the right or left head post of a bed, an arm pivotally mounted in said clamp, a basket, a bra ket on e side i bask t d means for removably supporting said basket my hand at Oakland, California, this 21st on said arm whereby the basket may be reday of December, 1918: versed to enable said bracket to lie in adi T Vance of said basket as the latter is swung CHRISTIE DERSON 5 inwardly over the right or left side of the In presence ofbed. JOHN H. HEN ERSON,

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set FLoY CRANE. 

